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A Tough Call and Your Homerun Choices

Chicago White Sox player Buck Weaver gets tagged out at home plate during game 2 of the 1919 World Series between the White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds at Redland Field, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2, 1919. SDN-061954, Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection, CHM

Read or listen to the story A Tough Call to find how the White Sox dominated baseball during the mid 1910s and the scandal that ruined the 1919 season. In the story, meet Danny, a huge White Sox fan, who draws lessons from the past to make his own tough call. Then fill out baseballs showcasing your own homerun choices.

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